Our great choreographer Merce Cunningham explained

20 September 2012

Our great choreographer Merce Cunningham explained

Category: Dance | Tags: alastair macaulay, merce cunningham

What a great genius, Merce Cunningham. [...]

9 October 2011

Balanchine’s “Symphony in Three Movements,” from 1972, to Stravinsky

Category: Dance, Music | Tags: alastair macaulay, balanchine, edward villella, igor stravinsky, symphony in three movements

video snippets of miami city ballet’s staging of a masterful work made by balanchine for nycb’s stravinsky festival of 1972, which we wish we could see right now! [...]

24 May 2009

Diaghilev’s five great choreographers

Category: Dance | Tags: alastair macaulay, balanchine, ballets russes, joan acocella, leonide massine, michel fokine, nijinska, nijinsky, theodore kosloff

To create the dances for this glamorous posse, Diaghilev engaged five choreographers over the course of twenty years. This quintet now occupies a permanent spot in choreography heaven as classical ballet’s A-team: Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronslava Nijinska, and George Balanchine [...]